Greatness of soul : in Hume, Aristotle and Hobbes as shadowed by Milton's Satan / José A. Benardete.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benardete, José A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aristotle. Nicomachean ethics.

Aristotle.

Hume, David, 1711-1776--Ethics.

Hume, David.

Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679--Ethics.

Hobbes, Thomas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (106 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Featuring a Nietzschean paragraph from Hume that smacks of Milton's Satan, these pages also register how ""claws and teeth"" figure in Aristotle's Greatness of Soul, and leave Hobbes to pose a still deeper challenge in the same vein. With poets, led by Milton, almost as thick underfoot as philosophers, we are given a glimpse of what a classical education might look like.

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE - MILTON AND HUME; CHAPTER TWO - ""LEASHED IN LIKE HOUNDS""; CHAPTER THREE - INGRATITUDE; CHAPTER FOUR - PRIDE; CHAPTER FIVE - HUME''S ABOUT-FACE; CHAPTER SIX - A FRESH START; CHAPTER SEVEN - GLORY AND HONOR IN HOBBES; CHAPTER EIGHT - JULIUS CAESAR; CHAPTER NINE - THE RING OF GYGES; CHAPTER TEN - MEGALO JUNIOR AND THE WISDOM OF LIFE; Section One: Bostock; Section Two: McDowell; CHAPTER ELEVEN - OSTRACISM; CHAPTER TWELVE - CONCLUSION; THE SIMLE OF ACHILLES AND MILTON''S EVE: AN EPILOGUE; SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 31, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-6555-9

OCLC:

887507776